History of Asylum Hill Project

Permanently Closed - History of Asylum Hill Project Between 1855 and 1935, it was the site of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, which was renamed the State Hospital for Insane in 1900. Recent archaeological studies undertaken by UMMC revealed the existence of as many as 7,000 graves located on the only remaining undeveloped part of the main campus. Patients who died at the institution and who did not have family members to claim remains were buried there. After the Asylum closed in 1935, the simple wooden land lay untouched for two decades.